![]() Some of the jokes can be esoteric and gives me a hipster feel. This long-running series features an anthropomorphized Cat and a Girl who cynically ponder the nature of the universe. This comic brings the wide world of business with the eccentricities of cats. It’s a broad category, I know, but we know the internet is for cat memes. This category is for webcomics where the main characters are animals. Where else would you find a comic comparing ichthyologists and fishmongers? Tom Gauld’s tumblr page shows off his precise wit on a variety of topics including literature, science, and history. You’re All Just Jealous of my Jetpack By Tom Gauld Updates Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. Also, if you hover your mouse over the comic, there’s a little mouseover text, which is always fun. Some of the comics discuss mathematical and scientific principles while others are heart-wrenching panels about love. This comic describes itself as “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language.” That’s a pretty apt description. Well-worth checking out if you are a fan of the bard. For instance, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Bert and Ernie shaped and the ghost is the Lego ghost. There’s a lot of great gags in this comic. Stick Figure Hamlet is the full text of Hamlet but with stick figures. Some are tongue in cheek like Jack Sjogren’s “ Five Rejected Ideas for Coachella Art Installations” while others deal with heavier themes like CM Campbell’s “C ashing in on your White Privilege Tax Deduction” or Jessica Campbell’s “ No Amount of Compliments Can Outweigh the Artist’s Self-Doubt.” In addition to many pithy articles about the art world, Hyperallergic has regular comics about the art world by several contributors. Hyperallergic is an online magazine dedicated to all things art. I have categorized them into a few areas: Humanities/Science, Animal-based, Slice of Life, and the largest category by far, Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Steampunk/Horror and D&D. Many have been published into books while others have ongoing campaigns any book covers are from print collections. As for the ones that have complete story arcs, I selected ones with free archives. Several webcomics are long form stories, some are single panels, and a few are short story comics. Some series are ongoing or even new while others have stopped updating. I tried to choose the top fifty I liked personally but with an eye to diverse storylines, styles, etc. There are really astonishing number of well-written and well-drawn webcomics out there. In fact, choosing exactly 50 comics was daunting. I’ve put together a list of 50 webcomics that I wish to share with you all. ![]() I devoured Diesel Sweeties and Order of the Stick and the many others that came along. As a kid, I grew up on a diet of newspaper funnies, but these webcomics were so much more edgy. ![]() Robots? Porn stars? D&D jokes? Sign me up! I began reading webcomics in late high school/early college and I just couldn’t get enough of these quirky and at times subversive comics.
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